David Warnock wrote:
>
> Noel Yap wrote:
> >
> > David Warnock wrote:
> > > I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the
> > > default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong
> > > server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > On a Debian system, /usr/bin/X11/X is not a symlink at all but actually
> > a wrapper program that checks the file /etc/X11/Xserver for the proper X
> > server to call. You'll want the first line in that file to read
> > "/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA". See /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for more
> > information.
>
> Noel
>
> Thanks, looks like I goofed. I was sure I had not done this the right
> way but had a lot of dificulty finding what was happening. There seem to
> be so many files used in the startup of X.
>
> I guess that if I get dselect to re-install the base X package I can get
> the correct X file back?
Yes, xbase holds both Xserver and XF86Config; you'll need to give
explicit permission at install time to overwrite the old file with the
new one.
> That README.Debian is bery useful - I wish I had found it sooner.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
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Ed C.
